MPG Altium Designer Tutorial

The best way to learn how to do schematic capture and PCB layout using an industry-grade tool! This is a free, self-directed version of our industry Altium course for students and hobbyists. It includes details on how to get a free Altium trial version, and step-by-step instructions to order your finished PCB for about $5! Order the parts kit to populate the board, and you’ll be up and running with an impressive new set of skills for under $20 and about a day of your time.

The course content takes you step-by-step through the design of the “Blinky” – a low-cost LED blinking ornament that you can even customize with any color combination of 8 LEDs. The design starts from a completely blank project and takes you all the way through the schematic capture, footprint creation, PCB layout and routing. It even shows you how to order the PCB from a few different vendors.

There are over a hundred pages of notes in this tutorial and our beta testers have told us it is indeed first-class. This is an ESSENTIAL exercise to work through to start growing the incredibly important skill set of designing your own hardware.